MOUNTAINS BEFORE MOUNTAINEERING (PB)

Today, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encounter the sublime and challenge themselves. Yet long before modern mountaineers began planting flags upon peaks, mountains inspired curiosity and fascination. This book reveals the early modern travellers who climbed peaks and passes with fear and delight; the 'real mountaineers' who lived and died upon the mountain slopes; the scientists who used mountains to try to understand the origins of the world.